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How to document and tell queer history?

Film & discussion: The Screaming Queens of Compton. The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria.

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Join us at Litteraturhuset for the screening of Susan Stryker’s documentary The Screaming Queens of Compton, followed by a panel discussion on how to document and tell queer history.

±Ê²¹°ù³Ù¾±³¦¾±±è²¹²Ô³Ù²õ:ÌýSusan Stryker, Hadley Renkin, C. Anzio Jacobs, Dan Healey and Svati Shah.

Chair: Kari Jegerstedt

Screaming Queens tells the forgotten story of the first collective act of militant resistance to the social oppression of queer people in the United States –Ìýa 1966 riot by transgender prostitutes at a late night cafeteria in San Francisco, three years before the famous gay riot at New York's Stonewall Inn.

See the film trailer:Ìý

The event is free of charge, and open to allÌý– welcome!

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